Honda Civic Ti adds touring car-looks (but no added punch) for UK buyers

Honda fans in the UK can inspire their teeth in a special edition of the Civic five-door sink, with new design elements of the British Touring Car Championship series. The Honda Civic is Ti-package available on both the 1.4-and 1.8-liter i-VTEC Civic SE models. Honda will only be 500 copies of the Civic Ti, with the first cars on sale in March.

The Civic is a Ti package looks only, there is no performance improvements. Outside there is a GP body kit that includes spoilers on the front and rear, side skirts and rear body skirts operations. Premium White Pearl is the only Ti paint color, and it contrasted nicely the 17-inch Pro-Race matt black rims of Honda Racing BTTC partner, Team Dynamics.

Inside the Civic Ti standard Pioneer navigation / multimedia system with iPod / USB port and speakerphone. (Pioneer Honda's main sponsor of the 2011 BTCC series.)

Prices start at £ 15,995 for the 1.4-liter Civic Ti and £ 16,995 for the 1.8 ($ 25,985 and $ 27,612 respectively on current exchange rates). Follow the jump for official press release Honda.

Parking fines on single London street reportedly reach over $1.5M

We can stop whining about our latest officially our ticket. Across The Pond, have begun to London authorities, local driver's feet to the fire and are raking in record time due to fines. A street even managed to pull down almost £ 1,000,000 ($ 1,600,000 at current exchange rates) last year. This is especially shocking considering that the now infamous Clapham Park Road in Lambeth district is less than half a mile long. According to reports, authorities gave an amazing 16 800 tickets on the street alone, or about 46 citations per day.

The total amount of the fine on that particular street next collected over £ 300 000 ($ 480,000) counted higher than the street with the higher level of parking fine revenue.

Some locals believe that the government is using to build traffic ticket gaps in its budget as illegal revenue generator. Several complaints to the melody already collected from Barnet to Westminster.